Written by Friday, August 1 Antique Queens from far and near it’s Eureka’s 14th annual Yards and Yards of Yard Sales. Friday and Saturday 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Find locator maps at shops and restaurants. Sponsored,oddly,by the Greater Eureka Springs Chamber of Commerce. GET HITCHED! Domestic Partner Certificates. The courthouse is closed Saturday and Sunday. City [...]
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Matthew Shepard’s mother to speak at NWA gathering
Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man who was murdered in October 1998 will speak in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Center on the campus of Northwest Arkansas Community College (NWACC), Wednesday June 25th from 7 P.M. to 9 P.M. Judy and her husband, Dennis, created the Matthew Shepherd Foundation [...]
READ MORE »Nashville Students Score a Unanimous Win
In yesterday’s report of our visit to the 2008 ACLU Membership Conference, we mentioned a fellow speaker by the name of Evie Farnsworth who has been working with a group called Support Student Safety. Their mission: To convince the Metropolitan Nashville Board of Education to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the public school [...]
READ MORE »Mrs. (and Mrs.) Smith Go to Washington
One hundred seventy three days after four ordinary civilians armed with laptop computers hunkered down in a Eureka Springs living room to Google the subject, the first Domestic Partnership Registry (DPR) in Arkansas became a reality on June 22, 2007. Three hundred and fifty three days later, Jan and I traveled to Washington, D.C. to [...]
READ MORE »Eureka Springs Gay Community Fights Back
After almost a year of anti-gay propaganda from American Family Association and assorted other homophobes, the Eureka Springs gay community is asserting itself in print and on-line. While the AFA has done a fine job of advertising the city’s gay charms–including the only Domestic Partnership Registry in Arkansas–it needed a little help reaching our target [...]
READ MORE »Come Out for OutSmart Magazine Publication Party
The May issue of Houston’s OutSmart magazine–with seven full pages devoted to gay Eureka Springs–is now . . . well, out. Celebrate this major marketing and public relations achievement and get your copy of the magazine at Marquee’s (former location of Caribe Restaurante y Cantina) on Thursday, May 15 at 6:30 p.m. “With all it [...]
READ MORE »Wedding bells in Uruguay
Last Thursday, Uruguay became the first nation in Latin America to marry a gay couple, after a law allowing couples living together to formalize their union went into effect at the start of the year. Couples who have lived together for five years, regardless of sexual orientation, will be granted spousal rights at the federal [...]
READ MORE »Despite Official Silence, Domestic Partnership Registry Continues to Grow
In the days leading up to and immediately following Spring Diversity Weekend (April 3-6), a dozen couples from five states–Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Missouri and even Florida–signed up for the Eureka Springs Domestic Partnership Registry. That brings the total number of registrants to 342 individuals (or 171 couples) from Arkansas and 10 other states. Collectively, they [...]
READ MORE »ES Business Owners: Network and socialize at DW early-bird events
While out of towners plan their Diversity Weekends months in advance, the event has a way of sneaking up on busy business owners. So this is a reminder. Spring Diversity Weekend is this weekend, April 3-6. The earliest scheduled events offer gay and gay-friendly business owners the opportunity to meet and mingle with and hand [...]
READ MORE »Pine Mountain Jamboree Welcomes Gay Community
Harold Ellis, a member of the Mayor’s Tourism Task Force, has conveyed an invitation to gay and gay-friendly businesses from the Pine Mountain Jamboree. “Mike Bishop has invited all LGBT business owners and our supporters in Eureka Springs to attend his show at the Pine Mountain Jamboree on Wednesday, April 9th at 8 p.m.. We [...]
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